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B. W. WHHWORTH.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY I5 1918- 7 1,323,343. Patented Dec. 2,1919.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

BEVILL W. WHITWOR'IH, OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS A. WHIT- WORTH, 0F CEDAR FALLS, IOVIA.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BEVILL N. VVHIT- woRTH, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cedar Falls, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End- Gates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in end-gates for wagons, and the object of'my improvement is to supply a removable enclgate of-that type with a swinging closure having a lap-joint with the gate, and means for operating said closure, said means ineluding elements adapted to lock the closure in closed position in a manner to compress the surfaces of the lap-joint together to tightly close the joint, and prevent leakage therethrough.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, 1 is a rear elevation of my improved end-. gate, and of the means mounted thereon for operating its swinging closure and compressing the parts of the lap-joint thereof; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the structures shown in said Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a medial vertical cross-section of said end-gate, with the closure in closed position, taken on the broken line 33 of said Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a side or end elevation of the end-gate, showing the closure secured releasably in its opened position relative to the gate.

In said drawings, similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The numeral 1 denotes the relatively fixed part or plate of an end-gate for a wagon having at each end depending limbs 2 fixed thereon. This aifords an open space in said end-gate utilizable to remove the contents of the wagon-box therethrough when the closure for said opening is raised into opened position by means to be described.

The said closure 3 is a plate fitted to fill said open space and lie in the same plane as the plate 1 and its limbs 2 when closed thereon. The top edge of said closure 3 is beveled at 1 to fit a like beveled lower longitudinal edge 5 on the plate 1, the fitted parts 4: and 5 thus providing a beveled lap-joint between the said plates.

The numeral 6 denotes a pair of angle- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 15, 1918.

in which Figure.

ratenmunec. 2, 1919.

Serial No. 244,847.

bars secured vertically upon and alongthe rear faces of the plate 1 and the limbs 2 by means of the bolts 7 and 8., The upper 2 isfilled by inclined plates 18 secured to said limbs by means of bolts 19, said parts orplates 18 being preferably in the form of Z-ba-rs, with the open side thereof directed inwardly.

Upon the rear face of the closure 3 adjacent its ends are fixed the angle-bars 9 by means of bolts 10, the upper ends of said bars being slightly converged to give them a better bearing on the closure to strengthen it. Since these bars are angle-bars, their webs reinforce the closure near its ends more than a flat bar, and since the ends of the angle-bars overlap the joint between the closure 3 and the plate 1, they aid much in preventin warping of the closure at the joint. This position ofthe bars 9 with divergent lower'ends permits said lower ends to abut upon the end edges of the'closure so as to underlie and be received within the inclined plates 18 when the closure is in closed position, the plates 18 then serving as holding-sockets for locking and retaining the lower angles of the closure in place against said limbs. Bars 22 are secured upon the front faces of said limbs 2 to overlap the side joints between the limbs and said closure to prevent leakage therebetween, the bars being secured to the limbs by bolts 23.

To mount the closure 3 to swing outwardly from the plate 1, I provide a bail 11. This bail has terminal cranks 13 whose ends 12 serve as crank-pins and are pivoted in orifices in the flanges of the angle-bars 6.:

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of said loop 15 to compress the loop and cause certain parts of it to engagethe underlying closure to compress the beveled edges 4 and 5 of said lap-joint together tightly to prevent leakage of grain or other contents of the wagon therethrough.

In order to sucessfully contact the bail with-the closure 3 to compress it to close said lap-joint, I shape the bail in the following manner. From its bearings in the angle-bars 9 the shaft-parts 14 of the bail are bent slightly to approach the rear surfaces of the plate 1 and the closure 3. The parts 15 of the bail which cross the lap.- joint '-i. -5 are thus brought into direct contact with said parts 1 and 3. The looped part ll of the bail is then bent away from the closure somewhat. This gives the said looped part 11 some resilient movement under the compressive effect of the arm 16, and a good bearing for the latter in keeping it in contact with the bail for that purpose. It will be seen that the contacting parts a of the bail parts 15 engage the upper part of the rear surface of the closure at places about one-third of the way from each end of the closure, insuring an even compression upon the closure to therefore close the lap-joint along its entire extent uniformly and tightly.

Whenthe closure 3 is to be raised to the opened position shown in said Fig. &, the arm 16 is released from the bail, to permit the latter to be rocked upwardly to the position shown, the bail having with its pivotal connections to the bars 6 and 9 a double-joint which lets the closure move outwardly enough to clear the inclined sock t-plates 18, and lift the upper end of the closure for distance. The numeral 910 denotes a clip-member pivoted on a bolt 21 to the upper rear face of the plate 1. When the closure is lifted the clip 20 may be rocked over the shaft-part lt of the bail to hold the closure in its raised position, releasably. V

The devices shown for operating said closure are effective, while the special form of the bail renders it an active appliance for holding the closure sealed against the top and end joints with the plate 1 and the limbs 12, and overcomes any warping in the closure causing the latter to fit perfectly in its said joints to prevent leakage when closed.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In an end-gate for a wagon-box havinga relatively fixed cross-plate above a relatively movable gate cross-plate, said plates haw ing their abutting'edges beveled to fit closely in overlapped conjunction, a resilient bail terminally pivoted on said fixed cross-plate with its intermediate body bent toward said fixed plate, carried thence across and in contact with the fitting beveled edge parts of both plates, and having its middle portion bent outwardly in looped form above the movable plate, and a clip pivotally mounted on said movable plate adapted to releasably engage and compress the looped part of said bail yieldingly resiliently, to cause the contacting parts of the bail body to compress the beveled edge part of the movable plate tightly upon the beveled edge part of said fixed plate.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 10th day of July, 1918.

BEVILL W. lVl-IITVORTH. 

